Isaiah 30:6
American Standard Version
The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
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Isaiah 30:6 in other translations
The burden of the animals of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
Isaiah 30:6 in context
- 4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
- 5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- 6The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
- 7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
- 8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.